Golden Fishery

231. Harbor Night

Without Qin Shiou continuing to control the big bluefin tuna, chasing the bait scattered around, the big fish wandered up greedily.

The sonar fish finder of the fishing boat made a sharp cry. Qin Shiou looked at the screen, and the sea monster pointed him out: "Look, the green pattern is the image reflected by the sonar. The underground layer is the seabed. This curved The image is a tuna!"

"It could also be a shark." Qin Shiou laughed.

The sea monster shook his head and said: "Novices can't tell the difference between a shark and a bluefin tuna, but veterans can tell at a glance, just by looking at its swimming track and its swimming speed. Sharks don't sway side to side so cunningly. They will rush up to eat the bait. But the sharks will not be so fast, and the speed can be so fast, it is tuna!"

Shaq hung the live bait on the hook and threw it down, muttering in his mouth: "Come on, man, come to my boat quickly, I have bought you a plane ticket to Japan, I wish you a pleasant journey !"

Live fish are more attractive to tuna. Seeing the Atlantic herring struggling in the sea, this bluefin tuna no longer hesitated, rushed up like an arrow, opened its mouth wide, and swallowed the herring.

The bait enters the big mouth of the bluefin tuna with the hook, so that as the big fish swims, the hook falls out of the herring's mouth and gets stuck in the tuna's mouth, and the fishing line is pulled into the gills of the tuna - taking the bait up!

The fishing rod wheel seat rotated rapidly, and the main line, which was half as thick as disposable chopsticks, was quickly pulled out, and the fishing rod inevitably bent.

Shaq pressed the wheel seat, and while looking at the sea intently, he shouted: "Sea monster, bring me the damn harpoon and come out quickly! You come and sail the boat, listen to me, and let the fishing boat go backwards..."

The bluefin tuna struggled frantically in the water after being strangled into the gills by the fishing line, while the sea monster waited aside with its harpoon. At the same time, he did not forget to explain to Qin Shiou: "Before the fish is caught on the deck, it doesn't count. Even if the tuna bites the hook, the unhook rate is 60%!"

Shaq is an old fisherman, he will not make low-level mistakes, and he will stretch the fishing line to an appropriate degree. Constantly command Qin Shiou to operate the fishing boat and keep the same forward or backward route as the tuna, so that he can't break free from the hook.

It took more than half an hour before the tuna was exhausted, but it still wanted to give it a go, and seized the opportunity to dive to the bottom of the boat.

The ears of the tigers and leopards waiting by the ship's side snapped together. Jumping up and jumping into the water, it happened to block the water surface at the bottom of the boat.

The tuna was frightened and hurriedly backed away,

With a snarl, Shaq reeled in the fishing line violently, pulling the tuna to the side of the boat.

The sea monster shouted: "Now is the second test, look at my speargun..."

The muscles in his right arm stretched like a rock, shouting and shooting the speargun fiercely into the water. The position where the gills of the tuna are exposed in the middle.

Immediately, blood spurted out and was hit hard. The vitality of bluefin tuna has dropped sharply.

A rope was tied to the end of the speargun, and the sea monster quickly pulled the rope and pulled the tuna up with the speargun.

One characteristic of bluefin tuna that makes them easy to catch is the habitual lifting of their tails when they come out of the water. Their purpose is to swing their tails to hit the enemy, but people often seize the opportunity to put a noose on the tail.

When the sea monster shot a bluefin tuna with a speargun. Shaq let go, and he went to get the noose and lay down on the side of the boat and waited. The bluefin tuna puts the noose on after raising its tail so that the fish falls into their pocket.

When Shaq put the noose around the tuna's tail. The sea monster let go of the speargun, he opened the gate at the stern, and together with Shaq pulled the tuna up.

The two cooperated skillfully and showed Qin Shiou the beauty of fishing skills.

Qin Shiou came out to look at this bluefin tuna, which was fusiform as a whole, with a round body and smooth and graceful curves, like water droplets. Its fins are darker cyan, and its back to belly is silver gray, which proves that it is an Atlantic bluefin tuna.

After catching this fish, Shaq wrapped its tail around the crane and hung it up, while singing happily: "--valley-they-say--,

i-----eyes-and--..."

The sea monster quickly sang along with his voice: "---the-, that-has-d-our-path-way-a-..."

Qin Shiou smiled and listened to the two singing. He is very familiar with this song. It can almost be said that this is the most widely spread Canadian folk song in the world - "Red River Valley".

This song mainly shows that the residents in the Red River area in the north reclaim wasteland and farm, build homes, develop cities, and finally turn the wilderness infested by bison into beautiful homes. Fishermen will sing this song when they collect their catches and farmers harvest their grain.

"Let's eat together, eat together!" Shaq said happily.

Without starting the crane, Iverson stretched out his hand to grab the rope and dragged the fish up. Shaq cut off the gills with a knife, and the sea monster cut off the tail to let the blood flow. come out.

Fish are cold-blooded creatures, which does not mean that their blood has no temperature. Before they were struggling and fleeing, the fish blood temperature was relatively high. Now the dead fish meat is cold, so the fish blood will destroy the fish meat, causing it to produce lactic acid, which tastes like fish meat It's bad.

After cleaning the fish blood, Shaq measured it and said with a big smile, "It's very good, 168 centimeters, a big guy, I guess as long as the meat quality of this fish is a little better, it will be no problem to sell for 20,000 yuan."

"I hope I can fly it to Tokyo for an auction, then the price will be uncertain." The sea monster said with a smile.

Shaq looked at the fish meat, shook his head and said, "This is too bad, the quality of this fish is average."

A few people were commenting on this fish, and on several American ships in the distance, the crew members held up binoculars to watch Qin Shiou's side, and some people kept cursing bitterly:

"Damn it, this rich Canadian guy is lucky to get a good fish right away."

"Fuck, does God like rich people? We've been out for a day and haven't caught a single fish!"

"That fish is really big. It would be great if it belonged to me. Then I can go to Gloucester Harbor tonight to find two beautiful girls."

A group of people took a group photo with the fish. Iverson happily hugged the fish when he took the photo. He must have thought it was dinner tonight. Unfortunately, everything let him down.

The reason why bluefin tuna is rare lies in its rarity. After Qin Shiou and his team caught this fish, they never encountered it again.

Of course, Qin Shiou controls a big fish. This fish is soaring on the bottom of the sea, and it must have encountered the same kind. It has encountered more than a dozen of them, but they are all relatively small, and the largest one is more than one meter long. Qin Shiou does not want to catch such a small thing. .

Besides, it would be too abnormal to catch too many bluefin tuna in a row, so it's better to keep a low profile when you first come here.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was still high in the sky, Qin Shiou and the others were ready to put away their fishing rods and leave.

George Shoal is some distance from the harbor, and it takes more than three hours to drive back, so leave early.

At the same time, the owners of several other boats were also preparing to leave. They would not stay at sea overnight, because most of these boats were simple fishing boats, and the ice in reserve could not be kept for two days or longer.

As for bluefin tuna, as soon as it is caught, it must be bled and chilled. Fishermen need to return to the harbor to replenish oil and ice.

All the way with these fishing boats, Qin Shiou's destination is also the territory of the Americans, Gloucester Port, because the Nova Scotia Peninsula is farther away, more than 60 kilometers away. This is an hour's voyage, which takes more time and wastes more fuel.

The trawler yacht has a strong horsepower and a solid hull, so it naturally drives faster, so although Qin Shiou and others were the last to leave, they entered the port almost at the same time as the ships that left earlier.

Today's Gloucester Port is dominated by fishing boats. Trawlers and seine fishing boats are rare. Large and small fishing boats are scattered everywhere in the pier.

The fishermen are all familiar, and most of them are even residents of Gloucester Harbor, so when they return to the dock, these people greet each other, ask about the catch, and joke. (to be continued)